Fiction Literature category: 621673 books
Milan Kundera - a modern existentialist? Or: Why 'The Joke' is not an existential novel
A modern existentialist or Why The Joke is not an existential novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2007
Essay from the year 2002 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: A, University of Kent, course: Philosophy in Literature, 7 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Milan Kundera's novel 'The Joke' abounds in existentialist vocabulary...
History Is a Contemporary Literature
Manifesto for the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Ivan Jablonka’s History Is a Contemporary Literature offers highly innovative perspectives on the writing of history, the relationship between literature and the social sciences, and the way that both social-scientific inquiry and literary explorations contribute to our understanding of the world....
Victorian Women's Fiction
Marriage, Freedom, and the Individual
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Focusing on the ways in which female novelists have, in their creative work, challenged or scrutinised contemporary assumptions about their own sex, this book's critical interest in women’s fiction shows how mid-nineteenth-century women writers confront the conflict between the pressures of matrimonial...
by Wendy Harding
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
From the moment the first English-speaking explorers and settlers arrived on the North American continent, many have described its various locations and environments as empty. Indeed, much of American national history and culture is bound up with the idea that parts of the landscape are empty and...
The French Genealogy of the Beat Generation
Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac's Appropriations of Modern Literature, from Rimbaud to Michaux
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
The Francophilia of the Beat circle in the New York of the mid-1940s is well known, as is the importance of the Beat Hotel in the Paris of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but how exactly did French literature and culture participate in the emergence of the Beat Generation? French modernism did much...
by Zygmunt Bauman, Riccardo Mazzeo
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). While many commentators see literature and sociology as radically...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Roberto Bolaño as World Literature provides an introduction to the Chilean novelist that highlights his connections with classic and contemporary masters of world literature and his investigation of topics of international interest, such as the rise of rightwing and neofascist movements during the...
by John Morley
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Studies in Literature John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, british liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor (1838-1923)
This ebook presents «Studies in Literature», from John Morley. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected....
The Necessary Earth
Nature and Solitude in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Necessary Earth is a study of the degree to which the long American experience with an open frontier has entered into an inherently American literature to distingush it from that of other lands. Since literature is, in the author’s words, “a compound of time, place, and the individual projection...
Storytelling, History, and the Postmodern South
The Life of a Soldier of Fortune
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
In this innovative collection, Jason Phillips and ten other historians and literary scholars explore the enduring dynamic between history, literature, and power in the American South. Blending analysis with storytelling, and professional insights with personal experiences, they "deconstruct Dixie,"...
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2010
The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians,...
by Paul Varner
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The Historical Dictionary of Romanticism in Literature provides a large overview of the Romantic Movement that seemed at the time to have swept across Europe from Russia to Germany and France, to Britain, and across the Atlantic to the United States. The Romantics saw themselves as inaugurating a...
Home Ground and Foreign Territory
Essays on Early Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim of reassessing the field, unearthing neglected...